Thread regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

Fear of honest answering the employee surveys creates a false image

If I still have a job after how I filled out the survey, they must be relatively confidential. I was not offensive but I certainly called out specific EVPs and SVPs on their behavior and lack of leadership. If I recall, I said I trust my direct manager but also wrote that trust is waning every year. I actually have very little reason to trust anything he says because its all been lies and/or inaction for years but he largely leaves me alone. I'm not sure if its him or people above him.

And I was honest on the ones before that as well. Still here.

My opinion is this. Me and my team do excellent work and we have for years. What I've built at Oracle is great. If Oracle does not appreciate what i bring to the table, I really don't care. Let me go - its Oracle's loss, not mine. I'm not going anywhere voluntarily (well, maybe, for the right thing) and I will continue to be a thorn in the side to the nasty empire building managers who make things difficult. I've worked too hard for what I've built to just walk away.

This post ( @VtBgLG7-cunn ), that was posted on another thread got me thinking about how we contribute to the false image about the work environment by telling the management what they want to hear. If more of us had the guts to answer surveys honestly, maybe some of our problems would be addressed, now and than.

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OP, thanks for the honest feedback. Now why are you still there? Get off your hiney and look for a job. Oracle is a dead man walking.

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Post ID: @3zdi+VI5LQZQ

So you are honest about the VPs above you, which, it is entirely possible that your immediate manager hates the management above him and he doesn't care, maybe even likes your complaints. It's possible you can do that.

I had a situation where I wrote something too specific in a comment and the comments are given to the direct managers. If you have complained about something before, they will know who you are, and if you are complaining about anything remotely related to them, they will turn on you. You can do yourself a lot of damage if you are not careful and tread on the wrong thing. Better to just say everything is fine, much, much safer, and as a lot of people on here have said, who cares.

To the poster who said something about maybe things would improve if we were all honest.... you have not been attacked as yet. You may see disorganization and think it is just random chaos. I am here to tell you, it's not. Managers actively sabotage their employees and other managers and other employees in other groups. Easy to do... give bad information... tell an employee to disable a feature when it is the exact feature some group needs.... lie about someone so others will not help them out.... reply with garbage when asked a question.... direct QA not to test someone's application.... make up bogus projects that waste people's time.....

There is no way to help the situation. The management is intensely corrupt and there is NO WAY to fix it without firing the entire management stack.

You are completely clueless about what causes the chaos that you see. It's not an accident. It is intended. You think that there is someone in the management that gives a sh-- and would change something if only they had the right information. That is just not true. Even if a director or VP knows a manager is dishonest, they won't do anything.... because they have friends and they are networked with others doing the same dishonest sh--ty things to employees.

There is no way out, if you have to stay around because you are close to retirement, then keep your mouth shut and s--- up to your manager. That't the only way.

Otherwise, you need to move on. There are much better places to work if you are interested in actually achieving something other than a paycheck.

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Post ID: @czk+VI5LQZQ

"Why do you keep posting this?"

Agreed, the OP is flogging a dead horse.

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Post ID: @irv+VI5LQZQ

Tfidf welcomes any honest comments. Your bag of words have the rights to remain empty. What ever you add to your bag of words may become evidence against you.

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Post ID: @cfz+VI5LQZQ

They are not confidential. HR and M6+ can see who entered what. Don't answer those things honestly, you're asking for trouble.

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Post ID: @psj+VI5LQZQ

Why do you keep posting this?

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Post ID: @wes+VI5LQZQ

So you are honest, provide good feedback. Great! Does anything ever change based on that feedback? If not, then who does it serve? TBH probably just a green dot on somebody’s project spreadsheet that Oracle is so fond of using. How does that make you feel?

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